One lesson I learned throughout this project was being able to communicate with my partners, and realizing how important it is to have that communication. We were able to discuss multiple things, like due dates, what everyone needed to get done and how, and where everyone was on getting everything done. It was really helpful being able to help my partners stay on task and have them help me stay on task as well. Another thing I learned from this project was being able to take away data from research and apply that to something in the project. I was able to find data on the demographics and fire severity, and I was able to connect those to how it related to my project.
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For my research, I mainly researched the angles of all of the sources of renewable energies, and from there we were able to choose which source was most practical and the easiest to encourage people on. It was between EV’s and solar, and after further research on both topics, we chose solar because the EV’s still have to get their electricity from somewhere, mainly from fossil fuels, so solar was the better option.
The movement we went for was the video. I was set on that as soon as my team made our problem statement. I think my team wanted to do this because it was next practical thing to do, other than social media account. We didn’t want to do a social media account because almost all of the other teams were doing that, and our target audience were older people, so social media wouldn’t have been the most effective way. A surprising amount of people watched the video, and we got some good responses out of it. I think we could’ve done a way better job of making the video, but it would’ve taken a lot more time. Overall, I think that our video was OK, but it wasn’t the best way to interact with our audience. One of the main struggles that I faced while working on this project was relying on group members to do their work and contribute to the team. One of my group members didn’t shoot the video when they were supposed to, and that set us back a lot. I got really mad at that teammate, even though I couldn’t do anything about it. I learned to calm myself down and work on fixing the problem, so that’s what I did. Me and another team member shot the video and posted it to YouTube, but it was a couple days late. So, our prototype was a storyboard and we got feedback from mainly peers. We put the first storyboard together really quickly, and needed some critiquing. We took it to the first peer and addressed the fact that in the video, we were trying to focus on people getting electric vehicles, even though our problem statement was addressing solar energy. We redid the storyboard to fit more accustomed with the feedback, and the rest of the feedback was mainly good, and we further developed it after the feedback. The lantern is pretty well made. The sticky notes could have been put together better, and they could've been straightened out more. Some of the notes are folded at the edges, but the lantern still looks put together. The sheets could have also been put together, because some of the light shines through the cracks where the notes don't wrap around the sticks. Some of the tape is showing, and some of the sticky notes are out of place. The triangle is also a little bit bent at some corners. But overall, I think it looks pretty good.
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